22 December 2014

News Flash!GIMP Magazine Issue 7 is now available. This issue focuses on Evelyne Schulz, an extraordinary digital artist, and includes a tutorial, an in-depth interview, and a few examples of her work. There is also a gallery of art and photography by members of the GIMP community.

18 December 2014

News Flash!In case you missed it, GIMP Magazine has returned from a long hiatus sporting a new look and a new format which is tablet-friendly. Issues now have fewer pages, but focus on one photographer, artist, or topic.This issue focuses on Aaron Tyree, master photographer, and includes an in-depth interview and a tutorial, along with many examples of Aaron's work. There is also a gallery of art and photography by members of the GIMP community.Download Issue 6 for free!

10 July 2014

Many months ago I discovered Evelyne Schulz on Twitter due to a GIMP-related post. I immediately loved her artwork and, after some correspondence, she graciously agreed to write a tutorial about how she creates her digital paintings in GIMP. What follows is what she wrote about how she created her Warrior painting, with editing and inclusion of a description of the Palette Editor by me.

21 May 2014

While browsing the shelves of a local
discount book store, I stumbled upon an interesting pattern book
called Drip.Dot.Swirl. by Von Glitschka,
published by HOW Books in 2009. Being a bit of a pattern nut and
seeing a lot of patterns in the book that I liked, I was about to buy
the book when I noticed that the DVD that was supposed to be in the
back of the book was missing. The DVD contains editable vector files,
swatch libraries, and tutorials and is at least half the reason for
buying the book. Being undaunted, after a quick search online I found a copy of the book and had it in my hands within a week.

Drip Dot Swirl: 94 Incredible Patterns for Design and Illustration

I happily popped the DVD into the drive and grabbed the first vector file, only to discover that all the
files are in encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format and plain vanilla Inkscape is completely unable to load them. Fine. Back to the internet. After poking around for a while I finally found some useful
instructions at InkscapeForum.com. Here's a quick step-by-step on how
to set up Inkscape so that it can read EPS files. (Please note that these instructions are for Windows 7. For later versions of Windows, the way to get to your environment variables will probably be slightly different.)

23 April 2014

I was recently asked for a quick way to
draw a border three pixels wide around the inside edge of a rectangular selection on top of an in-progress graphic design. Two methods immediately came to mind and a third occurred to me later that afternoon. I discovered a fourth method while writing this article.

Method 1

The most obvious method to use is
Select > Border [1], which opens the Border Selection
dialog [2]. This dialog contains three adjustments.

04 March 2014

Inkscape's alignment and distribution functionality is wonderful to use for organizing graphic or typographic design elements or laying out printed matter. In this tutorial I will demonstrate this by creating a simple graphic design of colored stars.

04 February 2014

When creating graphic or typographic designs or laying out printed matter such as brochures, leaflets, or newsletters, knowing how to use GIMP to organize and move graphic elements can be very handy. In this article I will explore GIMP's alignment and distribution functions by creating a simple graphic design of colored circles.